Monday night was our Annual Founders’ Awards Dinner. I love this event each year because it honors the individuals and businesses in the community who reflect the commitment and dedication to the senior population that was exemplified by the original Founders of Colonie Senior Service Centers more than 30 years ago. Presented with awards were […]
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Exactly 59 years ago, the Transistor Radio first went on the market, a joint project between Regency Division of Industrial Development Engineering Associates and Texas Instruments. Finally people could have their very own handheld radios. Music and news were now portable and right at our fingertips. Up until this point, families often just had one […]
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Recently I read a blog about “The Value of Having Friends Older than You” and it got me thinking about how the media (especially advertising) segments the generations. I think when we see this compartmentalizing it impacts how we interact in our daily lives. As I am about to turn 65 next month, and I […]
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105 years ago (on October 1st, to be exact), Henry Ford’s Model T went on sale for the first time. Ford would then go on to build over 15 million Model T’s between 1908 and 1927, only to be surpassed by the Volkswagen Beetle. At $825 dollars, it was considered to be fairly expensive at […]
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